OBAMA ON HEALTH CARE: A MATTER OF DIGNITY AND DECENCY?

Since when has the health care issue turned into a matter of decency?  President Obama and Congressional Democrats have turned it into nothing more than an indecent proposal, but there was the President on Sunday, speaking before the congregation at the Vermont Avenue Baptist Church  during a service honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.  As he stood at the pulpit he preached that a victory for health care would be a victory for decency!

As reported by Fox News,Obama said the legislation will help more than 30 million Americans, "men women and children, mothers and fathers" to get insurance."This will be a victory not for Democrats," Obama said. "It will be a victory for dignity and decency, and for our common humanity. It will be a victory for the United States of America."

Has the President lost his mind or is he just oblivious to the mood of the nation? Perhaps he is so caught up in passing something with Health Care stamped across the page, it doesn't matter what is in it or how it reads. They threw out any dignity or decency to this issue long before arriving at this point of the process.

What is decent about still leaving 25 million uninsured? What is decent about raising the taxes on the middle-class? How can he keep a straight face and speak of decency and dignity when earlier in the week he completes a sweetheart deal with unions to exempt them from a Cadillac Tax on their policies?  Even worse, how decent is it that he chooses to negotiate the final wording of the bill behind closed doors? When you add in all the late night deals, bribes and payoffs added by the Democrats, the only word that comes to mind is disgusting. Transparency? The only transparency on this legislation is that America doesn't like it, the public can smell a dirty deal. Even now, on the eve of the Massachusetts election to fill the late Senator Ted Kennedy's seat, Democrats are plotting to ram the bill through in case Republican Scott Brown wins. They would ignore the State of Massachusetts voters just as they are ignoring the entire country and arrogantly do so in the name of decency.

The state of the union will be outrage, if not revolt, against this President and all the Democrats in Congress. The State Of The Union Address might as well be made behind closed doors. It would truly be an act of indecency for the man to go before the nation touting the success of a strictly partisan plan, flawed to the core, constitutionally unsound and loaded with special exemptions and favors to a select few, then try to sell it as decent legislation. This bill won't stand on its merits alone, it stinks, they know it, but having some sort of health plan, no matter how bad, is more important to them than actually doing what they set out to do, which was to ensure that every American had access to quality, affordable, health care. All they have managed to do is create another bloated entitlement program paid for by cutting Medicare benefits to seniors and imposing taxes on the population. Instead of bringing dignity and decency to their quest for health care reform, they have disgraced themselves and the offices they hold, lied, cheated, bribed and resorted to every underhanded political tactic one could imagine. The American people will not walk away quietly from this. They are well acquainted with the terms dignity and decency and right now they don't see it coming from the White House.


Edisto Joe

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